In the black marcket, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly, continues to run in the city of Hakodate for mental treatment on sunny days and rainy days. When Kazuo comes to communicate with the young people he meets on the street, something begins to change...
数多くの映画や民放各局の連ドラが制作されている撮影所、「バイプレウッド」。そこで田口トモロヲ(田口トモロヲ)、松重豊(松重豊)、光石研(光石研)、遠藤憲一(遠藤憲一)らは、有村架純(有村架純)主演のネット連ドラの撮影に参加する。しかし、有村が共演する犬の風の姿が見えなくなったことから現場は不穏な空気に包まれる。やがて、自主制作する映画のトラブルに悩む濱田岳(濱田岳)やバイプレウッド買収阻止を図る天海祐希(天海祐希)らが巻き起こす騒動も絡み、事態は思わぬ方向に向かう。
Takeshi Hamano
After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, convinced by the discourse of an adoption association, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a baby boy. A few years later, their parenthood is shaken by a threatening unknown girl, Hikari, who pretends to be the child's biological mother. Satoko decides to confront Hikari directly.
Nao, who disagrees with her boyfriend often and tends to skip class, gets offered by her father, Hirokazu, to join Aya, who is about to be his third wife, on a trip to Taiwan for a week. In contrast to Nao who is reluctant, Aya wants to get to know her future step daughter better. Eating, walking, meetng people. Will this experience change Nao?
両親を亡くし火葬場で出会ったヒカリ(二宮慶多)、イシ(水野哲志)、タケムラ(奥村門土)、イクコ(中島セナ)は、感情を失った自分たちの心を取り戻すため、それぞれの家を巡り始める。やがてたどり着いたゴミ捨て場で、LITTLE ZOMBIES というバンドを結成。そこで撮った映像が話題を呼び、社会現象になるほどのヒットを記録する。
Shuji Kisaragi
When a new employee from a well-off family begins working for the first she had understood that she is walking into a fabulous working environment. This is what they call a 'white company.' Instead, she is in for a rude shock when the employer turns out to be a 'black company,' which is one with a negative environment, a rude boss, problematic co-workers, abuse and low pay. The employee's father runs a company that happens to go broke. She herself is not a model employee exactly however.
あるイギリス戯曲が、日本で初めてとある小さな町で上演されることになる。オーディションでそのキャストに選出されて意気込む6人の少年少女たちだったが、公演は中止になってしまう。ショックに打ちひしがれる中、1人の少女が稽古しようとメンバーに持ち掛ける。その呼びかけに奮起し、大人たちに上演中止撤回を迫るが事態は好転しそうもない。どうしても舞台に立ちたい彼らは、本番予定だった日に劇場へ向かい…。
Motoi Shimura
The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own life.
Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an intelligence officer of the Russian service of the Japanese Army General Staff. Fluent in Russian and German and trusted by the spies of many countries because of his integrity, his office would eventually become the most important Japanese intelligence post in Europe. From the day of her arrival in Stockholm, Yuriko helps her husband's intelligence activities. She encrypts the highly classified information obtained by Makoto and sends it in coded telegrams to the General Staff Headquarters in Japan every day. Husband and wife have jointly undertaken this intelligence work for confidentiality.
Kazuyoshi Miyazaki
女子高に通う加奈は、ベランダから転落し命を落としてしまう。彼女は、女子高のカーストの中でトップに君臨する咲に憧れる友人グループの一人だった。加奈を男手一つで育ててきた安藤聡は自責の念にかられており、娘の死は事故だったと信じていた。ところが、死の真相を探ろうとする安藤の前に咲が立ちはだかる。
Konoe Fumimaro
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity business. As a follower of Fukuzawa Yukichi, he inherited the spirit of independence, self-respect and the people. He rose up alone from the ruins of the war. It was the fight of an unconventional, stubborn old man over 70 with an indomitable will. Minister of Trade and Industry Ikeda Hayato admired Matsunaga like a father while Prime Ministers Yoshida Shigeru and Konoe Fumimaro, Shirasu Jiro (Takagawa Yuya) and others were in awe of his unfathomable passion.
終戦が近い東京で、母、叔母と共に暮らす19歳の里子は、何度も降り掛かる空襲に恐怖し、結婚適齢期なのに戦況が悪化し結婚など望めそうもない状況に不安を抱いていた。そんな中、丙種により徴兵を免除され、妻子を疎開させ一人で生活している隣人・市毛の身の回りの世話をすることに楽しみを見いだした里子に、いつしか自らのうちに潜む女性としての本能が芽生え…。
Takumi Tsukiyama
Shiori's blog attracts the attention of Ayumi, a timid 13-year-old girl. Ayumi's growing infatuation takes an unforeseen turn when she runs away from home and infiltrates Shiori's life.
Takatsu
母から愛されず、自分が誰からも必要とされていないと心を痛める14歳の宮市和希は、学校で周囲と打ち解けられず孤独を抱えていた。そんなある日、不良の春山洋志と出会い、彼らの世界に自らのよりどころを見いだすようになる。少しずつ洋志に惹かれていく和希だったが、Nightsのリーダーとなった洋志は反目し合うチームとの激しい争いにしのぎを削ることとなる。
Shigeo Goto
Two swim-team members, a hairless boy and a hirsute girl, discover the pangs and tangles of first love.
Daisuke Mifune
Aiセンター稼働を巡る司法と医療の対立が表層化した東城大学医学部付属病院を襲った未曾有の危機「アリアドネ・インシデント」から一月後の7月。不定愁訴外来責任者の田口は高階病院長から、先方の依頼で院長宛に送られた「八の月、東城大とケルベロスの塔を破壊する」と綴られた脅迫状の調査協力を依頼される。しかも、田口に協力を要請した先方とは高階にこの件を相談を受けていた白鳥の部下・姫宮香織だった。
Tatsuo Ebina
ある日、アタル(中居正広)やラリー(村上弘明)が所属する、ニューヨークのFBI組織・SPB爆破事件が起きる。同じ頃、東京でも電車の送電線破裂事件が起こり、車椅子の女性管理官・星(松雪泰子)が捜査の指揮を執ることになる。沢(北村一輝)ら警視庁捜査一課の刑事たちが捜査に臨む中、アタルとラリーも帰国して捜査に加わる。
A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern during breaks.
Screenplay
アニスト志望で特待生として音楽科への推薦入学が決まっている香月遥は、ピアノ教師の鬼塚に叱責されながらも自らの腕を磨くため、日々練習に明け暮れていた。2か月前にスマトラ沖地震で突然家族を失い、以降香月家に身を寄せている従姉妹の片桐ルシアとは同い年で共通点も多く好みも合い、ピアニストになるという夢も同じだったため、2人はまるで姉妹のように仲が良く、遥の父・徹也はルシアを養子にする話を進めていた。そんな2人を、悲劇が襲う。遥の両親や、同居している叔父の研三が用事で家を空け、介護士の綴喜みち子も家に帰ってしまった夜遅く、香月家当主である香月玄太郎の部屋から出火し、あっという間に3人がいた香月邸の離れは全焼してしまう。
Director
アニスト志望で特待生として音楽科への推薦入学が決まっている香月遥は、ピアノ教師の鬼塚に叱責されながらも自らの腕を磨くため、日々練習に明け暮れていた。2か月前にスマトラ沖地震で突然家族を失い、以降香月家に身を寄せている従姉妹の片桐ルシアとは同い年で共通点も多く好みも合い、ピアニストになるという夢も同じだったため、2人はまるで姉妹のように仲が良く、遥の父・徹也はルシアを養子にする話を進めていた。そんな2人を、悲劇が襲う。遥の両親や、同居している叔父の研三が用事で家を空け、介護士の綴喜みち子も家に帰ってしまった夜遅く、香月家当主である香月玄太郎の部屋から出火し、あっという間に3人がいた香月邸の離れは全焼してしまう。
Kaoru Fukutomi
通常の捜査では解決できない特殊な事件を専門に扱う部署「警視庁公安部公安第五課未詳事件特別対策係」通称“未詳(ミショウ)”。特別捜査官の当麻紗綾(戸田恵梨香)と瀬文焚流(加瀬亮)の元に「ミイラ死体殺人事件」のニュースがもたらされる。これはスペックホルダーによる犯行なのか?事件はやがて国家をも揺るがす大事件となっていく。シンプルプランとは?ファティマ第3の予言とは?その時、当麻の左手に激痛が走る!
Tsutomu
In a remote area of Hokkaido, two lonely high school students meet and connect through a shared love of music.
Dir of Mikasa Clinic
フォトジャーナリストの塚原は、酒を飲んでは卒倒し、病院に担ぎ込まれる事態を何度も繰り返し、そんな彼に愛想を尽かした売れっ子漫画家の前妻の由紀は、いまや2人の子どもとともに別々の生活を送っていた。その後、また禁酒の誓いを破って同じ失態をやらかした塚原は、ついに病院に入院して、彼同様、アルコール依存症に悩むさまざまな個性的な患者たちとともに、穏やかな入院生活を送るようになる。
Ishiba
2007年から08年にかけて人気が再燃し、話題となった小林多喜二による1929年のプロレタリア文学の名作を、「弾丸ランナー」「疾走」のSABUが映画化。出稼ぎ労働者達が蟹缶の加工を行う船・蟹工船で、劣悪な環境と低賃金に疑問を抱いた新庄は、労働者たちを蜂起させ、非道な監督の浅川に立ち向かう。松田龍平と西島秀俊が激しく対立する労働者と権力者に扮する。
Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.
A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, was not accused because he was too young. Ten years later, a series of murders occur, which target young girls only. It is the boy accused of killing the housewife who comes up in the couse of investigation, while the son of the murdered mother is the witness of a new murder. When the two families of the offender and of the victim meet again, two opposite morals conflict with each other – one is to crack down on the sin beyond the law and another is to disapprove the retaliation.
Mr. Haruhiko Miura
ゲゲゲの森。そこでは鬼太郎をはじめとする妖怪たちが暮らしていた。
茶谷建設が強引に建設を進めるレジャーランド計画によって立ち退きを迫られている近くの団地では、妖怪が出現して転居を拒む住民を脅かしていた。それは茶谷建設に雇われて強引な住民対策を行っていたねずみ男が手引きをしていたのだった。団地に住む少年・三浦健太は鬼太郎に手紙を出して助けを求める。
鬼太郎に悪事を悟られたねずみ男は退散するが、その帰り道、彼は廃墟の稲荷社殿の地下で光り輝く謎の石を見つけ、宝石と思い質屋に売ってしまった。だがその石こそ、邪悪な妖怪や人間の怨念が凝縮された「妖怪石」だった。さらには質屋が目を離した隙に、たまたま店を訪れていた健太の父が、石の魔力に拐かされて石を盗んでしまった。石を管理していた妖狐一族の空狐は怒り狂い、配下の気狐を従えて石の在処を追う。だが空狐の本心は、これを機に石の力を使って人間を支配しようという魂胆だった。
善と悪、様々な妖怪達を巻き込む鬼太郎史上最大のピンチの戦いが今、始まろうとしていた。
Master of Teahouse
浜美大に通う竹本(櫻井翔)は、ある日、一心不乱に絵を描く少女・はぐみ(蒼井優)に恋心を抱く。彼女は大学の教授・花本(堺雅人)の親戚で、天才少女とうわさされる転入生だった。はぐみのことが頭から離れない竹本だったが、彼と同様にはぐみを気にかける非凡な先輩・森田(伊勢谷友介)の存在が竹本の恋心をかき乱す。
会社員・筒井(西島秀俊)は、離婚歴があり子供もいる瞳(寺島しのぶ)と結婚。瞳の母・正子(倍賞美津子)や妹の紗江(栗山千明)との関係も良好で、結婚生活に不満はない。しかしふと、何かを諦めてこの生活を選んでしまったような気持ちに陥る。ある日、家族で訪れたバーニーズ・ニューヨークで、かつて同棲していたオカマ・閻魔(田口トモロヲ)と偶然、再会。そして、その過去を瞳に話してしまい…。
Akira's Father
When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. Newcomer's popularity is contrasted with the less-tolerant treatment of scruffy Hideko, who, thanks to the arrival of a carnival freak-show in town, is nicknamed the Wolf Girl. Teachers and parents snootily consider the carny off-limits, but Akira is determined to find out whether Hideko really is a wolf girl.
Writer
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark on separate investigations that leads them both to the same beautifician.
図書館司書として働く類子は、中学生のときに片思いしていた正巳と再会する。お互いに惹かれあうようになるが、正巳にはある問題があり…。
Haruki's father
One morning, Haruki comes to school wearing goggles. His classmates make fun of him as usual, but the goggles are meant to hide the bruises from the abuse he received from his father.
Dr. Nakai
医学生の高木博史(浅野忠信)は、交通事故からかろうじて一命を取り留めるが、父・隆二(串田和美)や母・慎子(りりィ)の顔さえ分からず、すべての記憶を失っていた。自分が一体誰なのか、どこにいるのか……。居場所のない自分を抱えてさまよい始める博史だったが、なぜか医学書にだけは興味を示し、大学の医学部に入学する。2年生の必須科目である解剖実習が始まり、博史の班に若い女性の遺体が割りあてられた。
Screenplay
Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyuki is back in town with her daughter Chiharu, after leaving a failed marriage.
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.
In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Screenplay
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Kayama (Ogata Ken) is assigned to transport Mizusawa to Shizuoka for questioning. On the way, Kayama receives word that the hotel where his wife and daughter are attending a party has been rigged with a time bomb. Being a "by-the-book" kind of cop, Kayama refuses to abandon his job and return to help his family. Meanwhile, the hotel is swarming with police and the bomb squad who are searching for the bomb and the culprit. Time is almost up. Mizusawa claims that he is the only who who can deactivate the bomb.
Writer
Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.
Director
Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.
Busjack Man
「Helpless」の青山真治監督が、バスジャック事件で心に傷を負った人々の再生への旅を描いた人間ドラマ。2000年・第53回カンヌ国際映画祭で国際批評家連盟賞とエキュメニック賞を受賞した。九州の地方都市でバスジャック事件が発生し、多くの乗客が殺害された。生き残ったのは運転手の沢井と、中学生の直樹と小学生の梢の兄妹だけで、3人は心に深い傷を負う。2年後、家族を置いて消息を絶っていた沢井が町に戻ってくる。時を同じくして周辺で連続殺人事件が発生し、沢井に疑いの目が向けられる。そんな中、兄妹が2人だけで暮らしていることを知った沢井は、彼らの自宅を訪ね一緒に暮らし始める。さらに兄妹の従兄・秋彦も加わり、4人は沢井の運転するバスで旅に出るが……。沢井を役所広司、直樹と梢を実際の兄妹である宮崎将と宮崎あおいが演じた。2022年3月に青山真治監督が他界したことを受け、同年5月に追悼上映としてデジタル・マスター完全版を劇場公開。
Tsutomu
During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. Though he cures a lot of people on the way and believes that he is the only one to make Kiriko happy, he is being depressed by discovering a guy together with her.
Interviewer
Tomonori is a third rate model and very unhappy with her demeaning job of handing out leaflets. Unfortunately she doesn't have too many options. One day she gets drunk and starts a fight at a party where she is working.
Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked off with Yoshihiko’s girlfriend Aya. In doing so, he broke up with his own girlfriend, Reiko. Now they are all back together again and old feelings begin to surface.
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
Edogawa
お金が大好きな娘が、銀行強盗事件に巻き込まれたときに失われた五億円入りのスーツケースをもとめて奔走する姿を描いたコメディ。『渚のシンドバッド』につづくYESレーベル第二弾として製作された作品。
Dentsu Man
"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
Writer
When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salary-man who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew. Together they follow the clues. She has an amulet, which looks like a small bag, which she always hangs from her neck. It contains a piece of the Berlin wall.
Director
When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salary-man who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew. Together they follow the clues. She has an amulet, which looks like a small bag, which she always hangs from her neck. It contains a piece of the Berlin wall.
Itsuki Yosuke
At Fudo High, the principal receives threatening letters from someone called the "Afterschool Magician," who warns them to stop the plans to tear down the old school building. Scary rumours of students who died in the "Seven Mysteries of Fudo High" began to spread again, and it isn't long before Kindaichi and Miyuki gets involved when the Mystery Club asks them to help investigate. When the members of the Mystery Club turns up dead one by one and Miyuki also gets attacked, Kindaichi realizes that he must solve it before any more people are killed.
売れない漫画家の村田容子は清掃員のアルバイトをしており、バイト仲間でアマチュアボクサーの森沢由梨子に心惹かれている。容子は五年前、漫画の同人サークルで知り合ったアマチュア漫画界のカリスマ・諸凪花世と交際を開始。愛が深まるにつれ、お互いの作品に対する衝突を避けることができず、精神のバランスを崩した花世はサークルの合同作品集に火をつけ、ビルから飛び降り自殺を図って命を落としたのだった。由梨子への想いを募らせる容子だったが、やはり花世のことが忘れられず…。
Screenplay
Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.
Director
Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.
Salaryman
A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
Salaryman
A series of short segments focusing on the relationship of a Zanichi Korean taxi driver and Filipina woman in Japan.
Hideyoshi
An anthology film consisting of three linked stories by different directors, all set on an Okinawan island. The first story, 'Aunt Reiko' concerns an opera singer who travels back to her home island to consult a spiritualist about the loss of her voice. The second story, 'Haruko & Hideyoshi' concerns an outsider to the island who is tricked into marrying an island girl after visiting the island god of fertility with her. The final story, 'Bomb Kids' concerns two kids in a punk band who set out to win (or steal) a large amount of money. Linking these stories is the ongoing search for an unexploded WWII bomb, a large model pineapple, and the possibility of a hotel development coming to the island...
Writer
Zazie, one time rock star on the move, has retired at a young age to Shibaura, the semiderelict "waterfront" area of Tokyo. Now he spends his time recording his own life on video. But he can't shake his "fans": members of his former band want a reunion concert, his ex-girlfriend Megumi won't let go, office girls and snack-bar waitresses continue to idolize him. Most disturbing, the taciturn and vaguely threatening Sunada watches him day and night. But Zazie yields to no one, commits to nothing. On the one side, mounting expectation and burgeoning fantasy; on the other, indecision, introspection and silence. Something's gotta give…
Director
Zazie, one time rock star on the move, has retired at a young age to Shibaura, the semiderelict "waterfront" area of Tokyo. Now he spends his time recording his own life on video. But he can't shake his "fans": members of his former band want a reunion concert, his ex-girlfriend Megumi won't let go, office girls and snack-bar waitresses continue to idolize him. Most disturbing, the taciturn and vaguely threatening Sunada watches him day and night. But Zazie yields to no one, commits to nothing. On the one side, mounting expectation and burgeoning fantasy; on the other, indecision, introspection and silence. Something's gotta give…
Neighbor (Male)
An artist finds and rescues a mermaid with bleeding sores and uses what oozes from her sores to paint her portrait.
Man in restaurant
Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.
Kazuma Akasaka
江戸時代末期、アメリカから駿河の国の小藩に流れ着いた黒人3人が、音楽好きの大名と出会い、城中でジャムセッションを繰り広げる姿を描く奇想天外なコメディ。筒井康隆の同名短編を「近頃なぜかチャールストン」の岡本喜八監督が映画化。故郷アフリカへ帰るはずが、メキシコ商人に騙されて香港行きの船に乗せられた黒人4人組。ある日、病気で死んだ一人を残し、大嵐の中ボートで脱出を図った3人は駿河湾の庵原藩に助けられる。音楽好きの藩主は彼らの演奏するジャズの虜となり……。
Mishima, age 18-19 (segment "Flashbacks")
物語は三島由紀夫最後の一日となる朝から始まり、『金閣寺』『鏡子の家』『奔馬』を劇中劇として見せながら三島の生涯を描いていく。
どもりを持つ学生・溝口は金閣寺はその美しさに見苦しい自分の姿を責め悩み、放火をしてしまう『金閣寺』。容姿端麗で華奢な美青年・治が、最後はマゾヒスティックな狂愛に溺れていく『鏡子の家』。剣道に励む青年が同じ学生仲間とクーデターを決起する『奔馬』。そして、三島由紀夫の最期の瞬間に至る…。
Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand hype of commercial reality television, Riju Go made it clear what the consequences are of penetrating too deeply into the private world of the person followed. A beautiful portrait of an absolute loner.
Screenplay
Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand hype of commercial reality television, Riju Go made it clear what the consequences are of penetrating too deeply into the private world of the person followed. A beautiful portrait of an absolute loner.
Director
Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand hype of commercial reality television, Riju Go made it clear what the consequences are of penetrating too deeply into the private world of the person followed. A beautiful portrait of an absolute loner.
Man Who Climbs Tree
ある日、俳優の井上侘助(山崎努)と妻で女優の雨宮千鶴子(宮本信子)は夫婦共演のCM撮影を行っていたが、そこに突然連絡が入る。千鶴子の父・真吉(奥村公延)が亡くなったのだ。親族代表として葬式を出さなくてはならなくなった侘助はマネージャー里見(財津一郎)の助けを借りつつも途方に暮れる。 千鶴子の母・きく江(菅井きん)や千鶴子の妹・綾子(友里千賀子)夫婦、そして真吉の兄・正吉(大滝秀治)とともに遺体を伊豆の別荘に運び、お通夜の準備に取り掛かる。葬儀屋・海老原(江戸家猫八)とともに、お通夜当日の朝を迎える侘助達。だがそこには、喪服を着た侘助の愛人・良子(高瀬春奈)がいた。
Assistant Director
A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.
Jiro Okonogi
A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.
Writer
A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.